Inspirational Sports Quotes - Page 6

• But the tricks I use are ones that will hopefully benefit the team.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Sports, Team

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• There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Sports, Military

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• It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication.

  Herb Elliott

  Spiritual, Athlete, Dedication

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Sports, Hard Work, Commitment

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• You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

  Steffi Graf

  Thinking, Arrogance, Should

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• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Motivational, Sports, Dog

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• The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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• We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sarcastic, Sports, Football

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• Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

  Steve Waugh

  Sports, Games, Coaching

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• Fear - It's a fine line between that and pushing yourself. You definitely reach new heights when you push. But fear is good. Fear keeps us alive. If we didn't have it, we'd be doing crazy things and getting in sticky situations.

  Stephanie Gilmore

  Sports, Crazy, Alive

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• Winning is euphoric, but it lasts a short time. You've got to lap it up, then move on to the next thing. I think I've kept winning because I haven't attached myself to past successes.

  Stephanie Gilmore

  Sports, Moving, Winning

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• Some people have like a certain person, when they're around they get like a gnarly energy. I see it in other people, if a certain person's around they compete really well or something like that. I think it's sort of like that.

  Mick Fanning

  Sports, Thinking, Gnarly

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• I think it's just really made me appreciate life more. I've known people die before that and I was really rattled by it but when it hit so close to home ... it was just so different. I just thought about what I really wanted to do. I want to be a pro surfer and that's what I'm going to do.

  Mick Fanning

  Sports, Home, Thinking

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• A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

  Billie Jean King

  Motivational, Success, Sports

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 14, 2010

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• When you're surfing you're not thinking about where you parked the car or what you're going to do when you grow up or what you're going to buy when you've got lots of money. You know, you're just there. You're in the moment. And I think in a contemporary world, that's a rare privilege.

  Tim Winton

  Sports, Growing Up, Thinking

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• I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in.

  Steven Bradbury

  Sports, Thinking, Race

  "The Joy of Six: the Winter Olympics" by Russell Jackson, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.

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  There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Money does not motivate me as long as I can provide for my children.

  Steve Waugh

  Sports, Money, Children

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• I am blessed to have been born in Australia where water sports are loved and swimmers are revered.

  Shane Gould

  Sports, Blessed, Australia

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• Waves are fascinating, the way they are created by wind far out at sea and groomed by different winds as they come closer to shore. We surfers ride the very last part of the wave's life before it crashes and disappears, never to be seen again.

  Stephanie Gilmore

  Sports, Wind, Sea

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• The ocean humbles you. You can go and win a world title, but you're never going to beat the ocean.

  Stephanie Gilmore

  Sports, Nature, Ocean

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• It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.

  Tim Winton

  Sports, Australia, Surfing

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• I wouldn't have been what you'd call a champion if I had accepted failure when it first came, if I had looked at it and said, 'Well, that's it.'

  Shirley Strickland

  Sports, Champion, Firsts

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